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Contents:
- NEW GAY CAMPGROUND OPENS OREGON — BAMBOO ACR BRGS WT COAST EXCEMENT
- LOVE OF THE OUTDOORS AND SUPPORT OM IENDS, LLEAGU SPIRE GAY DEC FORTER
- A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
- GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER
- FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
- GAY FORTER (AUTGA COUNTY, ALABAMA)
- WRER AND PHILANTHROPIST CHUCK FORTER ON GAY SEX THE 1970S
- STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
- GAY FORTER (DORSET, TASMANIA)
NEW GAY CAMPGROUND OPENS OREGON — BAMBOO ACR BRGS WT COAST EXCEMENT
A new gay mpground has opened Southern Oregon. Bamboo Acr Talent is the newt men's-only rort for RVs, tents, and diva trailer lodgg. * gay forester *
Asi om TRC Washgton and Copper Cact near Phoenix, there are no gay mpgrounds that we know of Wt of the Rocki.
LOVE OF THE OUTDOORS AND SUPPORT OM IENDS, LLEAGU SPIRE GAY DEC FORTER
Forster’s novel featured a rare happy endg for gay characters. William di Canz’s new book, “Alec,” picks up and ntu their story. * gay forester *
While there are some LGBT-welg mpgrounds the area, this is the first new gay-specific spot the area. It was such an unual cisn—and such a succs—that helped ph gay and lbian advertisg om the g to the mastream. Mastream movi and TV shows wh gay characters—like Will & Grace—were still a few years away, and few celebri were openly gay.
When Ellen Degener beme a rare exceptn 1997, and her character the show Ellen me out as gay an episo of the s, many pani pulled their ads.
When a 1994 IKEA ad featured a gay uple, the Amerin Fay Associatn, a nonprof, mounted boytts, and someone lled a (fake) bomb threat to an IKEA Poux explas, the attu of most bs toward LGBTQ advertisg was: “Why would you do somethg like that?
A NEW NOVEL REVENTS E.M. FORSTER’S CLASSIC GAY LOVE STORY ‘MRICE’
* gay forester *
“All the l of marketg went out the wdow at this fear” of marketg to gays and lbians, he says.
GAY SEX HALTED E.M. FORSTER'S CAREER
"In the 70s, society labeled gay men irrponsible hedonists, so we proudly owned and by clarg our love of sex we ma a polil statement." * gay forester *
Wrg The Huffgton Post, the reporter Ron Dicker ptured some of the cultural nfn that followed:When one Suba ad man … proposed the gay-targetg ads talks wh Japane executiv, the executiv hurriedly looked up “gay” their dictnari. While Bent, who is gay, didn’t reveal his sexual orientatn for fear of overshadowg the effort, he nohels rells holdg pany meetgs wh nam along the l of “Who Are Gays and Lbians? Suba of Ameri knew had to support s gay and lbian employe if wanted to appeal to lbian ctomers, so they schled a meetg wh a senr Japane executive to make the se for domtic-partnership benefs.
FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
”By 1996, Suba ads created by Mulryan/Nash were appearg both gay publitns and mastream media. In rponse to the ads, Suba received letters om a grassroots group that acced the rmaker of promotg homosexualy. Like nerds who grow up to nont their bulli, Suba executiv me to realize that the people opposg the acknowledgment of gays and lbians were not as imposg as they of the reasons that, the days, the rmaker’s role cultivatg s lbian-iendly image is ls well known is that so many straight people were bld to the subtext of the s first Suba ads, Mulryan/Nash hired women to portray lbian upl.
GAY FORTER (AUTGA COUNTY, ALABAMA)
”The light among niche dience groups “dg” the hts Suba ads surprised the marketg team—and the se of s gay-iendly ads, so did straight dienc’ ignorance.
While many gay and lbian nsumers loved the shout-outs the license plat, straight people would only notice featur like a bike rack.
Poux, who helped e up wh the license-plate ia, says he held foc groups wh straight dienc where he’d show ads featurg gay upl.
WRER AND PHILANTHROPIST CHUCK FORTER ON GAY SEX THE 1970S
Even after an hour of talkg about gay issu, they’d thk a man was shoppg wh his articl at the time, Suba executiv said they felt uncerta about the “trigue” created by the perceptn of “secret dg.
STEP-BY-STEP INSTCTNS FOR SHOOTG YOUR SHOT WH GAY GUYS
As more pani began marketg to LGBTQ dienc, such dg—which fell unr the tegory of the new marketg term “gay vague”—beme a way for pani to reach queer dienc wh mimal risk of a nservative said, Suba did not hi s support of gay and lbian ctomers. While Volkswagen played y about whether an ad perceived as gay-iendly really portrayed a gay uple, Suba sponsored events like gay-pri paras, partnered wh the Rabow Card, a cred rd that stead of sh back offered donatns to gay and lbian , and hired Marta Navratilova, a former tennis pro and a lbian, to appear Suba ads. She had been outed agast her will, and while she spoke hontly about her sexual orientatn, she had lamented that gay athlet had “to hi the closet to sell [themselv] to Madison Avenue.
GAY FORTER (DORSET, TASMANIA)
” For her to bee the face of a r pany durg her retirement, says the Rabow Card -creator Pam Derrian, was a betiful, full-circle ’s gay-and-lbian–foced marketg mpaign was a h, and the pany’s efforts ntue today. In foc groups and onle polls, gay and lbian nsumers nsistently choose Suba vehicl as their favore rs or Suba as the most gay-iendly brand.
”Lbians buyg Suba rs did not sgle-handly rurrect the rmaker, but the gay market was one of the bt for Suba.